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Ashley Webb
Ashley Webb

Reputation: 68

declaring New instance of WordprocessingDocument using OpenXML

I am attempting to use open XML for the first time. I am following a tutorial found here http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36694/Creation-of-a-Word-2007-document-using-the-Open-XM. When I declare a variable as new WordprocessingDocument I receive the error:

"Type WordprocessingDocument.Create is undefined". 

Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging

Partial Class test

Public Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    makedoc("file.docx")
End Sub

Private Sub makedoc(ByVal documentfilename As String)
    Using mydoc As New WordprocessingDocument.Create(documentfilename, WordprocessingDocumentType.Document)
        Dim mainPart As MainDocumentPart = mydoc.AddMainDocumentPart()
        'Create Document tree for simple document. 
        mainPart.Document = New Document()
        'Create Body (this element contains
        'other elements that we want to include 
        Dim body As New Body()
        'Create paragraph 
        Dim paragraph As New Paragraph()
        Dim run_paragraph As New Run()
        ' we want to put that text into the output document 
        Dim text_paragraph As New Text("Hello World!")
        'Append elements appropriately. 
        run_paragraph.Append(text_paragraph)
        paragraph.Append(run_paragraph)
        body.Append(paragraph)
        mainPart.Document.Append(body)
        ' Save changes to the main document part. 
        mainPart.Document.Save()
    End Using

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2016

Answers (1)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 8647

You can't create a new instance of WordDocumentProcessing like this. The constructor is protected.

You need to call the Create or Open method : 

Using mydoc as WordProcessingDocument = WordProcessingDocument.Create(DocumentFileName, WordprocessingDocumentType.Document)
   ...
End Using

Upvotes: 1

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